Morning Docket 06.23.09
* Florida lawyer Frederick Schaffer smells money in his lawsuit against cold medicine Zicam. Or doesn’t smell it rather, claiming that the medicine made him lose that sense. [Boston Herald]
* Nevada Supreme Court Justice Kris Pickering keeps order in the court, but causes chaos in a UPS parking lot. [Las Vegas Review-Journal]
* It’s a buyer’s market for laterals. [National Law Journal via ABA Journal]
* A guilty plea from Chris Brown. There will be no Rihanna-Brown duets in the near future. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg issued a “two-way” stay-away order. [Associated Press]
* …Courthouse groupies are a testament to the power of music. [Popsquire]
* In a New Yorker profile in May, Jeffrey Toobin argued that John Roberts would politicize SCOTUS. Does last week’s decision regarding no right to DNA evidence for criminals support that argument? [True/Slant]
* Good parting gift for a fashionable Con Law prof? [Highsnobette]
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Rock the Kash box.
Ed McMahon just died this morning.
Somebody please look into Skadden starting salaries being listed as TBD on NALP. Thank you.
Where is MysTTTal
http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/cycling/news/story?id=4280331
3 Years for stealing Lance Armstrong's $10K bike from the team truck! Too bad they didn't say if dude had a record to maybe show why. Meanwhile Dante Stallworth gets 30 days for vehicular manslaughter. Dude needs a better lawyer yo!
Poor lawyer that lost his olfactory functions. Now nothing will pass the smell test.
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Can ATL find newsworthy stories? It's already 9:40. Most of us have been up for three or four hours and MysTTTal is still sleeping.
He's actually in his second hour of breakfast at the Shoney's All You Can Eat buffeTTT.
I'm glad ATL isn't posting for now -- obviously a day of silence in rememberance of Ed McMahon.
9, Mystal was out late last night. He was at a popular Chelsea watering hole reenacting scenes from the 80s classic film White Nights.
Jeffrey TTToobin thinks that Sotomayor would be just wonderful: a "moderate liberal like Ginsburg an Breyer" as he put it.
What a dumb liberal hack.
@5
Not to mention that ESPN's editting is worse than ATL's. Lance Armstrong's TT bike was stolen THIS year, 2009, not 2008. That's pretty obvious considering Lance wasn't racing last year at all. Way to pay attention ESPN. There's a reason cyclists don't read ESPN...
@13:
There's a reason the United States doesn't care about your crappy, steroid-infested "sport." I hope this helps.
Doesn't yesterday's Voting Rights decision undermine Toobin's argument?
Must read:
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/20090623mpci.pdf
Pickering = MILF:
http://www.legalnewsline.com/content/img/f221620/pickering.jpg
Buyer's market for laterals - lateral partners are moving to firms with a whopping 1.8% lower PPP? It would have been better to say that X% of lateral partner moves have been downstream, for an average of Y% lower PPP. Obviously, some people are still moving upstream and making 1.8% a useless number.
Here's a story for ATL. There is a rumour in the banking community that Paul Hastings is close to a covenant default on their line of credit. Any default will cause the bank to ask for personal guarantees from the partners. Not good.
SkaddenDC is on the verge of imploding. Partners leaving in droves.
You heard it here first.
19 - That wouldn't surprise me at all. That firm has dropped like a rock since it's 2004-2007 strategy of hiring anything with a law degree and raising rates as high as $495 for junior associates. (Yup, really.)
it's > its
- 21 (Trying to be quick under the watchful eyes of Uncle Paul, even if most of the IT department is gone.)